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Ballinahown

Village in County Westmeath, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Ballinahown
native_name	Baile na hAbhann
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	File:IMG Ballynahown5766w.jpg
image_caption	Ballinahown Community Hall (the old church)
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Westmeath
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2006
population_urban	250
population_rural	3001
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
elevation_m	128
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
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Ballinahown (), also spelled Ballynahown, is a village in County Westmeath in Ireland. On the N62 road, it is 10 km south of Athlone and 5 km east of the River Shannon. It contains the Roman Catholic St. Colmcilles Church, completed in 1902 to a design in the Early English Gothic-style by William Hague.

History

For more than nine centuries the village was the residence of the Malone family, who resided in Ballynahown House, a country house and estate on the site of an old castle.

Ballinahown won the 2024 award for Ireland's tidiest village.

Sport

In 2012, Mark Rohan, a former Under 21 footballer from Ballinahown who played with Westmeath until he had a motor cycle accident, won two gold medals in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the individual H1 handcycle time trial and road race.

Geography

Ballinahown is 10 km south of Athlone and 5 km east of the River Shannon by air. Clonydonnin Bog is located to the east of the village. An example of a Midlands Raised Bog, it consists of high bog, fringed areas of cutover bog, scrub and low-lying agricultural land. It is inhabited by species such as ling heather (Calluna vulgaris), cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix), bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), carnation sedge (Carex panicea) and cottongrass (Eriophorum spp.).

Landmarks

The village contains the Roman Catholic St. Colmcilles Church, which was designed in the Early English Gothic-style by William Hague. Construction began on 11 October 1896 but Hague died in 1899 and was completed after his death by his younger partner T. F. McNamara, who finished it in 1902. It opened on the 15 October 1902. According to the Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, it consists of a "four-bay nave, single-bay transepts to the east and west, a shallow single-bay chancel to the north and a two-stage tower (on square-plan) adjoining to the west end of the entrance front (south), having corner pinnacles and a spire on octagonal plan over (with lucarnes)".

References

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"Baronstown 1275". Irish Times.
"Ballinahown in Co. Westmeath announced as Ireland’s Tidiest Village for 2024". Midlands Ireland.
(5 September 2012). "Ireland win gold and two bronze and Brands Hatch". RTE.
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Clonydonnin Bog Nha Site, [https://www.npws.ie npws.ie], 2002, Retrieved 21 March 2020.
"St. Columcille's Roman Catholic church, BALLYNAHOWN, Ballynahown, County Westmeath". Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.

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